IC 5101
| Galaxy IC 5101 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | peacock |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 21 h 21 m 55.8 s |
| declination | -65 ° 50 ′ 10 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.30 'x 0.9' |
| Position angle | 0 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017145 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 5140 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(225 ± 16) · 10 6 ly (69.1 ± 4.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | DeLisle Stewart |
| Discovery date | 22nd August 1900 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 5101 • PGC 66636 • ESO 107-025 • IRAS 21177-6602 • 2MASX J21215574-6550096 • SGC 211745-6603.0 • 2MASS J21215579-6550100 | |
IC 5101 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Peacock in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 225 million light years from the Milky Way and about 90,000 light years in diameter. Presumably it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair together with IC 5100 .
The object was discovered by DeLisle Stewart on August 22, 1900 .